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Microsoft Wants P2P Avalanche to Crush BitTorrent

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bet-it-won't-be-open-source dept.

pacopico writes "Microsoft seems to think it can be the better Bittorrent. You know faster and more well-behaved. The Register has a story on the P2P work being done by Microsoft's researchers in the UK. Redmond reckons its "Avalanche" technology will be 20 to 30 percent faster than BitTorrent. It's meant for legal downloads only, of course."

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  1. Re:Microsoft Wants Your First Born by Snaller · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Anyway, a few months ago I read the Rateless paper, and thought "Gee, I should code this and release it under the GPL... It would be great for P2P apps!" But soon after I finished its implementation, I discovered that all the ideas authored in the Rateless paper were actually covered by patents of Digital Fountain [digitalfountain.com], meaning that Petar's company, Rateless [rateless.com], had to develop a different, proprietary coding mechanism that is outside the patents of DF, and I can't release my code!

    Release on P2P! *g*

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  2. Re:Microsoft Wants Your First Born by Snaller · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Umm... try out this Firefox thing.

    Umm... no.
    Oh... and GMail rocks!

    Umm... no.

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